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A. P HAYDEN & E PIEK P.

* CLAMP EOE SHEET HOLDERS.

No. 292,307. Patented Jan. 22, 188A.

IIIIIIIJ WITNESSES:

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UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ALFRED I. HAYDEN AND FRANCIS PICKUP, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

CLAMP FOR SHEET-HOLDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,307, dated January 22, 1854.

Application filed March 16, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED P. HAYDEN and FRANCIS PICKUP, .both of Brooklyn, in

the county of Kings and State of New York,

of a sheet-holder provided with our improved sheet-clamp, the holder being shown open. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation of the same on the line y 11 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional View on the line a: m, Fig. 2.

Two covers, A, of pasteboard or analogous material, are united by a flexible back, B. On

the inner surface of the back 13 a metal strip or plate, 0, is fastened parallel to the length of the back and parallel to the width of the covers, which plate is provided at its exposed surface with a longitudinal groove, D. On one end of the plate or .strip 0 a hook, E, is formed, and to the opposite end a jaw, F, is hinged, to which jaw a wire, G, is attached, which is provided at its free end with a head or button, H. The wire G has a downwardlybent part, J, between its ends, as shown. The wire G is of such thickness that it fits within the groove D. The strip or plate 0 can be attached to the cover instead of being fastened to the back 13. l

The operation is as follows: The backs are swung apart and the wire G is raised, and one of the sheets, K, to be fastened or held to the covers, is placed on the plate 0, and the wire G is pressed down, and its free end is pressed under the hook E, whereby the bent part J will be pressed into the groove D, and will press the end of the sheet into the said groove,

whereby thesheet will be held to the back.

A single sheet or more sheets can be held in the manner described. If desired,'the wire can be hinged or otherwise fastened to a fixed jaw in place of being fastened to a hinged j aw.-

This device is adapted for holding all kinds of loose sheetsfor instance, express receipts, check-blanks,note-blanks, 8m.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A sheet-holding clamp consisting of a longitudinally-grooved plate or strip provided at one end with a hinged jaw, and a hook at the other end, combined with a wire, G, having a bent part, J fitting in the groove of the plate or strip,'substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with two covers, united by aback, of the longitudinally-grooved strip or plate 0, attached to the inner surface of the back, the hook E at one end of the strip, the hinged jaw F at the other end of the strip, and the .wire G, attached to the hinged jaw F, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

ALFRED P. HAYDEN.-

FRANCIS PICKUP.

Witnesses 5 I OSCAR F. GUNZ, O. Snnewrox. 

